Antialiasing seems to benefit more from the updated driver in several applications however, it's also important to mention that in several titles enabling 4xAA simply isn't practical without dropping to a much lower resolution. Looking at the remaining titles, most show moderate to slightly noticeable performance increases. If that particular game is any indication of the status of DirectX 10 drivers and games, there's clearly a lot of potential for future improvements. However, we didn't include the Company of Heroes DirectX 10 result in that figure, as it seriously skewed the overall performance change. The overall performance change averages out to 3%, which may at first seem like the hacked drivers aren't worth the trouble. Many of the titles show insignificant performance changes - anything less than 3%. We'll provide benchmark charts with additional details about the performance in various applications and games in a moment, but for those looking for a quick overview of how the 163.44 drivers affect performance on the X205, here's the average performance change for a number of games we tested that 1280x800, 1440x900, and 1680x1050. Our test system is unchanged from the previous article, other than using the newer graphics drivers.Ģx1024MB DDR2 SO-DIMMs (Hyundai HYMP512S64CP8-T5)Tested at DDR2-667 5-5-5-15 We tried using hacked drivers on the Alienware m9750 with pretty disappointing results, but the use of SLI on that notebook may have been a significant contributing factor. Having managed to install the 163.44 drivers, we were also curious to see how they compared in terms of performance to the official drivers.

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